empleyfire wrote:I geuss no one can help...
Have you tried what dathem said...loading an earlier version...?
If your DVD does load in another machine...we can possibly rule out a bad download an burn..OK
Now with that in mind I did run across a problem few years back where my internal optical drive could not even read a good DVD....an external one did read it fine...go figure.
And i have also bought a new internal..and it did not even work, it did not read anything, got another replacement and it worked fine.
Do not know what version of 2.5 you are trying to boot up...32bit, 64bit, 86bit..?
If you do have a optical issue....then your correct "no one can help".
And cell maybe correct...i have had my bios change to even booting to a floppy disk on the first instead of the optical drive and the second where my install was was the optical, why..?
Have no clue..
And ps...are you running Sata or IDE...?
Could be your cables too...